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Apropos of Sagar’s wish to foist the A.I. industry by its own petard, this article appeared in print in yesterday’s…
I teach both large courses, like Jurisprudence and Critical Legal Thinking (a.k.a Legal Argumentation), and small seminar-based courses at Edinburgh…
Surely there is an answer to the problem of AI cheating which averts the existential threat. . It’s not great,…
I’d like to pose a question. Let’s be pessimistic for the moment, and assume AI *does* destroy the university, at…
Hear hear
I agree with all of this. The threat is really that stark. The only solution is indeed in-class essay exams,…
I’m not sure I’d yet go so far as to call LLMs an existential threat to universities. But I do…
Noel Redding may be best-known as the bassist with the Jimi Hendrix Experience, but he fronted several bands of his own, including Fat Mattress, a folk-rock-psychedelic band he formed in 1969 where he played guitar, his original instrument. This song never made it on either of the two albums they originally released, but was featured on a later anthology. It is certainly representative of their style:
And here they are on Beat Club performing a song from their second album in 1970, "Naturally":
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